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Date of source: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
After failing to reach a binding agreement over the Renaissance Dam in Kinshasa, Egypt and Sudan have intensified their rhetoric towards Ethiopia. So, what are the remaining options to avoid all-out war?
Date of source: Friday, January 8, 2021
Amidst the Arab world’s intense media coverage of the storming of the US Capitol Building, some are seeing a campaign in celebration of the United States’ pain and misfortune, trying to prove something. What’s the goal behind this?
Date of source: Monday, July 6, 2020
The debate over harassment in Egypt has once again flared up after a male student at The American University of Cairo was accused of sexual assault by several young women online. This debate, however, went beyond this specific instance itself to the phenomenon as a whole, and several parties got...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
The Egyptian businessman Najīb Sāwīris caused controversy on social media after he had made statements regarding the Coronavirus. In a TV interview the CEO of the Orascom Telecom Media said that the economy needs to return to its natural state as quickly as possible and he demanded that workers...
Date of source: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
“Imagine you enter a war and you capture some of the enemy’s soldiers. Those captured have now become your prisoners and one of them has a heart attack. Will you let the person die or take him to hospital? Law, religion, and humanity oblige you to take the suffering person to a hospital and safe...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī grew up in a family with a history of national struggle and a good education that made him a skilled computer programmer. Like millions of young people in Egypt, he dreamed of democratic change. In 2005 he created a blog in his name and his wife Manal which called for an end to...
Date of source: Thursday, May 2, 2019
This year, Israel is commemorating the Holocaust with signs of growing anti-Semitism in North America and Europe, and harsh criticism of PM Netanyahu for his alliance with his Hungarian counterpart Victor Urban.
Date of source: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
At a party commemorating 50 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel, German President Joachim Gauck expressed his concern over the increasing amount of violence against Jews in Europe. He also urged Germans to confront and fight anti-Semitism in a strong way.
(12 May, 2015, DW, No...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Oxford university professor Ṭāriq Ramadān was interviewed by DW to discuss raising Islamic radicalism and contemporary problems of Muslims in Europe. Ramadān thinks that the problem is in Muslims themselves and the way they market their religion and leave it for radicals to hijack and claim for...
Date of source: Monday, February 23, 2015
The Education Ministry and the Ministry of Awqāf (Religious Endowments) called for a revision of the curriculum in religious subjects in order to combat violence and radicalization, and teach future generations tolerance instead. This curricular change is being interpreted within broader efforts by...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.